monasticism (n.)

• abstinence
• asceticism
• austerity
• bachelorhood
• celibacy
• continence
• eremitism
• fasting
• flagellation
• maceration
• maidenhead
• maidenhood
• misogamy
• misogyny
• mortification
• puritanism
• rigor
• self-denial
• self-mortification
• singleness
• spinsterhood
• virginity